As we have come very near to the final product of our music video. It is also a good thing to see whether or not we have stuck to the storyboard we originally came up with. First and for most, I would like to see it is always a challenge to stick directly to a storyboard, as you have to bare in mind that, as storyboard is in fact an idea that hasn't yet come to life. We see it all the time that storyboard are just a work frame to work with, in order to give the product some form of structure and set a clear task at achieving it or something near to that.
We have tried to stick to the storyboard as much as we could, but at times that was even difficult. Which led us to have a few altercations put in space. Nevertheless, we have successful stuck with most of the storyboard, whiles some were changed. It is one thing to have an idea and purely stick to it and another thing to actual accomplish it. I would say we were fairly successful regardless.
The plan was that as you see above, to have shots of our artists at their various location. However, when we started editing, we realised that it would be more effective if we were to Show some roses, so there is a literal connection from the song and the lyrics. Also we added shots to introduce the religious empathises as well, by allowing the audience to see some of the statues we saw at the Church. We also used a skyline type of shot, as it was rainy. cold and gloomy, it was a pathetic fallacy. Therefore, I felt that it would be more effective this way other than the way I first created the storyboard. It just gives so much depth than what it would have been if we had done it the initial way.
With the image above, we tried to stick to that the best that we could. We kept Kwabz bit the same, but obviously not with the same perspective as the shot-list. This is due to the fact that, whiles we were filming, as much as we tried to do everything precisely as the storyboard, that wasn't so easy. So rather than trying to stick actually to that. I started calling out the type of gesture and facial expressions for him to do whiles he was lip syncing the lyrics. Therefore, making everything look more authentic and nature. We also managed to get various types of shots, ranging from close up, extreme close ups, wide shots etc. So when it came to editing, what we had to focus on the most was trying to match the hand movement to each other, because we can't have a shot where his hand is raised to his head then the next he's holding a glass. It wouldn't make any sense, which is why the way we transition shot from shot had to be right. It wasn't so easy at doing so either.
In terms of the shot where it talks about the performer, we didn't use that whatsoever. Instead we used that part to introduce Estelle to the audience. Which shows her singing and walking along, whiles the scene jumps from her in the church with the performer and her by herself walking/singing. It was effective in the sense that we have now used a variety of locations and made it clear to the audience who Estelle is and the link to the religiosity. We also took out the shot about the church window being shown and the roses blowing in the wind, as we used the roses at the start of the music video and chose not to use the shot of the church window, as we are already seen there with the artist and performer. The last shot on the list wasn't used either. This is because there was already a scene with a family photo(Kwabz') so to reuse that would be too repetitive. 
We stuck to Kapone looking into the distance, however this was shown through out his scene. Where he's looking out the window rapping. whiles there's a transition of various angled and close shots. To show his facial and body movement from a different view. However, we eliminated the use of the prop of the phone, as we when we were filming we just thought it was just doing too much. So that also means the element of showing his cousin calling him was no longer needed as well. As it just would have been hard to achieve, so we made it easier for ourselves and just empathised it through the use of body language. Where it talks about Estelle walking and singing, that element is also taken away, so rather than that, we introduce the scene with all the artists much sooner. It just looks 100 times better.
With the image above, we have such to most of it, but when it talks about just Estelle walking and singing, we had changed that wiles editing. This is because, instead of that, we incorporated all the artists in that whole last chorus, rather than having her singing than bringing in all the other artists. As this was, it made editing so much easier for us and it just looked so much better. It symbolised the unity of friendship/family/brotherhood/sisterhood at a time when so much things are uncertain after losing someone so close to you. So it sent a message that one should never feel or be alone at a time of such misery as it will do you no good and that there are always people looking out for you no matter what. In terms of the ending, we no longer use the walking away element and placing the roses down. This is because time wasn't on our hands. We didn't have anymore time to spend of filming, we had to crack on at editing. But either way both the endings, the one form the storyboard and the one we then chose to use was both as effective. When the singing finishes the camera is panned down to the ground, where the rose is then seen at the end of the music video.
Overall, whether or not we chose to fully use the storyboard or not, the music video we have produced so far still does a great job at showing our interpretation of the lyrics and it looks good so far. Hopefully the changes we have made have made what we thought to be the real deal, a even better one. Now time to finish off this thing and finally be at peace.
